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WASHINGTON At least a few of the U.S. Republican senators feeling the backlash from signing an open letter to Iran's leaders are expressing some second thoughts.
Amid mounting criticism from allies, home-state editorial boards and colleagues who opted...

Democrats closed ranks around Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday after her public explanation of her email practices — yet party officials in important election states appeared resigned to the prospect that her all-but-certain presidential campaign...

WASHINGTON Days after Ashton Carter became Defense secretary, he huddled with 30 American diplomats and generals on a U.S. Army base in Kuwait to review President Barack Obama's plan for battling Islamic State.
Emerging from the six-hour meeting,...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have had a pretty rough week otherwise, but she's getting some love from Connecticut. A new Quinnipiac University Poll, released Thursday morning, said "Clinton can just e-mail it in to win Connecticut."
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It looks like Kevin Spacey can't get enough of the Oval Office.
The Academy-Award-winning actor who is now starring in Season 3 of "House of Cards" as President Frank Underwood is going to produce and host a six-part documentary about presidential...

WASHINGTON Even after Hillary Clinton's news conference, many questions remain about her use of a private email account for business while she was secretary of State.
Here are six:
Did anyone approve of this?
Clinton said at the news conference Tuesday...

In the last weeks of his campaign, Mayor Rahm Emanuel seems exhausted, spread thin.
You get the feeling there is too much toast and not enough cheese in him as he reaches toward the April 7 runoff election with Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy"...

The International Monetary Fund agreed Wednesday to extend $17.5 billion in loans to Ukraine as part of a program designed to pull the country back from the verge of economic collapse.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said in a statement that...

Relations between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans have hit a new low.
There has been little direct communication between Obama and the GOP leadership on Capitol Hill since Republicans took full control of Congress in January. Obama...

Senate Democrats said Tuesday that the GOP letter about nuclear talks with Iran undercuts the U.S. at the negotiating table and threatens to torpedo bipartisanship on Capitol Hill when it comes to the delicate issue of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran....

The United States announced Wednesday that it is sending small unarmed drones, armored Humvees and other assistance to Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists. Lethal weapons were not included, to the dismay of some U.S. lawmakers.
The...